I got back after it today with a morning/afternoon on my bike dedicated to birding around the downtown shoreline area of SB. This area is ripe with birds, all of the time - but often overlooked, as there are so many other more seemingly interesting places to bird around town. However, bike birding today yielded some nice results.
Common gulls were abundant: CALIFORNIA GULL, WESTERN GULL, BONAPARTE'S GULL were all identified. There were also ring billed, and probably Mew Gulls, but I couldn't get a sure id on those guys.
At Chase Palm Park, I got lucky and picked out the continuing PALM WARBLER amongst the many beautiful Audubon's Yellow Rumpy's. Lucky for me, the Palm had a slightly different chip sound, a eye line that was just enough to separate it from the YRWA, and pumped its tail enough for me to make a solid ID. That was a good bird today.
I looked thoroughly for the continuing Tropical Kingbird, but had no luck. I hope this bird stays around, it will be a good one for us to get. I did however get to see some swallows moving through and got some good looks at the VIOLET GREEN SWALLOW cluster, and a handful of NORTHERN ROUGH WINGY'S.
Two additional notes from today. I had EARED GREBE'S - which I checked off the list as
"black-necked grebe" I also noticed that what we call BLACK BELLIED PLOVER is listed as "grey plover" on our checklist, which I also notched today after seeing BBPL abundantly earlier this year.
Thats all for now, keep up the good work. Spring is a'coming and that is an exciting thing. It will be good to get Pete out here for some good birds in a couple weeks. Kev, I hope I can make it to Rside so we can all bird together.
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